Legit Processor Reviews
AMD Athlon II X3 445 3.1GHz Triple Core Processor Review
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Athlon II X3 445 |
| Date: | Mon, Jul 05, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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Power Consumption
Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. All processors were tested on a system using the same hardware; the exception is the Intel system.
The trend of the AMD Athlon II X3 445 continues into the power consumption of the processor. With one less core it draws less power under full load than all the quad cores with the exception of the AMD Phenom II X4 910e which is an energy efficient processor. Though to my surprise it was actually drawing slightly more power when it was sitting Idle.
Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusion
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Page 1 - AMD Athlon II X3 445
Page 2 - The Test System Page 3 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth Page 4 - 3DdMark Vantage Page 5 - Cinebench R11.5 Page 6 - Hyper Pi Page 7 - x264 HD Video Encoding Page 8 - Resident Evil 5 Page 9 - Batman Arkham Asylum Page 10 - Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Page 11 - Overclocking the AMD Athlon II X3 445 Page 12 - Power Consumption Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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